History & Theory is one of the leading journals in the area of historical theory and publishes interesting contributions that have wider relevance for historical research in other fields.
A related journal with a slightly different orientation has just been launched called Historical Encounters.
Historical Encounters is a peer-reviewed, open access, interdsiciplinary journal dedicated to the empirical and theoretical study of:
- historical consciousness (how we experience the past as something alien to the present; how we understand and relate, both cognitively and affectively, to the past; and how our historically-constituted consciousness shapes our understanding and interpretation of historical representations in the present and influences how we orient ourselves to possible futures);
- historical cultures (the effective and affective relationship that a human group has with its own past; the agents who create and transform it; the oral, print, visual, dramatic, and interactive media representations through which it is lived, and by which it is disseminated; the personal, social, commercial, and political uses to which it is put; and the processes of reception that shape encounters with it);
- history education (how we know, teach, and learn history through: schools, universities, museums, public commemorations, tourist venues, heritage sites, local history societies, and other formal and informal settings).
- Submissions from across the fields of public history, history didactics, curriculum & pedagogy studies, cultural studies, narrative theory
Details of how to access the articles below can be found on the History & Theory website: http://www.historyandtheory.org/recent.html
ARTICLES:
BRANKO MITROVIĆ, Historical Understanding and Historical Interpretation as Contextualization
BERBER BEVERNAGE, The Past Is Evil/Evil Is Past: On Retrospective Politics, Philosophy of History, and Temporal Manichaeism
PETER BAEHR, Stalinism in Retrospect: Hannah Arendt
FORUM: FOUCAULT AND NEOLIBERALISM:
MATTHEW SPECTER, Introduction
MICHAEL C. BEHRENT, Can the Critique of Capitalism Be Antihumanist?
MITCHELL DEAN, Foucault Must Not Be Defended
SERGE AUDIER, Neoliberalism through Foucault’s Eyes
REVIEW ESSAYS:
JAN E. GOLDSTEIN on Michael S. Roth, Memory, Trauma, and History: Essays on Living with the Past
VERA SCHWARCZ on Otto Dov Kulka, Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination, and Thomas Trezise, Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony
WILLIAM JOHNSTON on Katsuya Hirano, The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan
DAVID P. JORDAN on Patrice Gueniffey, Bonaparte, 1769–1802 and Andrew Roberts, Napoleon, A Life
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